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From: brad@cup.portal.com (Paul B Anders)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Bug was NOT in Screen Peace |?
Message-ID: <33995@cup.portal.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 17:18:25 GMT
References: <90260.110133LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Mr Antti Peltonen writes :

>Hello again,
>    I wrote last week about bug in Screen Peace v 1.2 screen saver.
>    I got many answers, thanks to You all.
>
>    I forgot to tell, that used HDC EXPRESS as a shell. (HDS's screen
>    saver option disabled.) I made some tests and now i am convinced
>    that there is a BUG IN HDC EXPRESS. Specially when used as a shell
>    from system.ini  I think Express made some conflicts also with WFW's
>    disk I/O, because i was faced same "thrown out of Windows -broblem"
>    twice before without Screen Peace. -Nah, HDC Express was slow anyway.
>    I think I'll give up Express and wait that promising new product what
>    makes "Mac interface for Windows" (I saw the demo from CICA.CICA...
>    maybe the name was CBM ??).

The problem as described before was :

1.	SP 1.2 running as icon
2.	Open File Manager ( or Open File from WFW, Write, etc. ), and 
	try to access drive a: without a disk in the drive
3.	Get error message, click on "Cancel"
4.	System locks up.

I also am using SP 1.2 as an icon, HDC Express ( as the shell from 
system.ini ) with the screen saver option disabled, and have no problem 
with clicking "Cancel" from any application when trying to access a non-
existant disk in drive a:

I have this setup on two systems. One system is an Intel 302 386/25 system,
with 8MB RAM, Paradise VGA+16, the other is an IBM PC/AT w/ and Intel 
Inboard 386, w/ various RAM boards, Paradise VGA+16.

Could you please describe your system setup? There seem to be some users with
the problem you describe, and about the same number without the problem. Maybe
there is a specific video card or system component that is sensitve to the 
problem.

Brad
brad@cup.portal.com